Art Definition and 181 Threads

I am a PhD art student with a background in history of art, art practice, mathematics (PGCE) and editing. My work, as you may guess, is very interdisciplinary. It is hard to overcome the 'silo' mentality of the different disciplines. Mathematics is a major methodology for me, and I am trying to...

Maybe if you had a whole lot more than that from cryptocurrency... https://www.npr.org/2024/11/21/nx-s1-5199568/a-duct-taped-banana-sells-for-6-2-million-at-an-art-auction Me? No thanks. ?:)

Hello there! Who belongs anywhere; am i right? It’s a whole bag of worms. Or strings. Planks? Anyway, im not a student currently and on the rare occasions that i can afford to sign to sign up for a class or two I'm more of a liberal arts kinda guy. As stated above i googled “Metaphysical...

We just got back from hunting trolls in New England. We recently learned of Thomas Dambo a Danish rapper turned artist who since 2014 has been constructing troll sculptures out of discarded wooden pallets and local natural sources of wood across the globe. The trolls are built with the help of...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/03/oldest-picture-story-cave-painting-indonesia-record-51000-years From the Guardian article "The painting, believed to be at least 51,200 years old, was found at Leang Karampuang cave on the east Indonesian island of Sulawesi, Samples...

Working on an art project using Feynman diagrams ... I'm curious if there are any that you consider to be particularly relevant to everyday human experience or particularly beautiful (according to any criteria you wish). Thanks!

Hey all, glad to find and join this community. I'm 28 years old, excelled in math and science in high school but because of mental health and life circumstances took a 10 year hiatus from education to focus on healing, primarily using art a means to understand the "self". This sent me down a...

Hi everyone! I love science, am constantly interested in news in various fields, and have even done my own amateur research in physics and psychology, but I am an artist. And that’s why I most like to popularize scientific and technological progress, as well as highlight related issues through...

Welsh singer Margaret Watts Hughes, in the 1880s, invented something like a Chladni pattern generator driven by the human voice. https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/picturing-a-voice-margaret-watts-hughes-and-the-eidophone/ She also managed to add a sort of time dimension to the acoustic figures:

Lovebites I dunno that this great art, but it shure is entertaining.

This was an advanced system at the time (1973), my first programming job. Multiple HP 2100 mini-computers (1 is HP 2116), each computer mult-tasking, a database server for 160 users at the time I left the company. Underneath each mini-computers is a 10 MB hard drive used to queue messages...

I once got an AI to give me some really nice looking art but don't remember how or where. Anyone have any recommendations?

This is an example of Nepali sentence. Nepali is based on Devanagari Script. यो फोरम मलाई एकदम मन पर्छ| https://nepalilanguage.org/alphabet/#:~:text=Each%20of%20the%20following%2033,%2F%2C%20%E0%A4%AB%20%2Fp%CA%B0a%2F%2C These are the vowels and consonants in Nepali. A Nepali consonant can...

This article cannot replace the 1220 pages of the almanac Gradshteyn-Ryzhik but it tries on 1% of the pages to summarize the main techniques. Continue reading...

How is it that the early Greeks and Romans had such well-sculpted statues of human figures, but not so well-drawn people on canvas or other 2D surfaces?

splitting white light, and turns out refraction is... complicated

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v15/147 That looks pretty cool. If more artists find out about it it might catch on.

My answer: The ART algorithm is a row-action algorithm. I tried to draw it, but I am not sure whether it will answer the question

Summary:: I'm looking for physical models/phenomena that can be replicated in the art of creating sound/music. Hey everyone, I'm an experimental music composer/researcher who just got addicted to watching Youtube videos on quantum physics. The entire field absolutely fascinates me now. The...

I am an artistic photographer and am wondering if others think it is an art or not and why

I meet this artist when he and I attended a lamaze birth training class over thirty years ago. I just thought about him and thought I would post his website. Being from Kansas, I was able to see a lot of his works. Here's a small sample:

It's the Saint-Etienne cathedral in Auxerre France. Created using Blender 2.92, rendered in cycles render.

Hi everyone, I was quite excellent at STEM subjects at school, but struggled (bad) at art classes. Here's why: At grade 9 of middle school, one of the job (assignment) that I had to perform in weeks was singing Amayadori by Mayumi Itsuwa. I and other students were given photocopies of music...

These are images of a 3D model I made of the legendary Edmund Fitzgerald, a great lakes bulk carrier ship, which famously sank in lake superior in 1975.

Dear Physics Forum, I need help with this problem. In the diagrams above I try to show my difficulty. My main problem is working out how shadow will fall on a completely flat surface with the light source at more or less a 0 or 180 degree angle (depending on how you want to look at it) ...

Hi Physics Forum, I will be the annoying art guy who needs help with how things might work and try his luck on here. :)

L. Ron Hubbard was a con man, abuser, liar, cheat, megalomaniac, pathetic excuse for a human being. Everyone, myself included, knows that. But that was the man. When it comes to his art, I'll bet at least 1% of his work can be called decent, to say the least. What do you guys say? Yay or nay?

An article on the Extreme Art of Dropping Things looking for cracks in Einstein's Relativity theory: https://www.wired.com/story/how-the-extreme-art-of-dropping-stuff-could-upend-physics/ So far satellite experiments have shown objects fall at the same rate in agreement with Einstein.

Hello! I am an aspiring artist and have a terrible expertise in tech, but I have this idea in mind and strong desire to make it come to life, so I was hoping I could get some help here. The idea is to create a moving sculpture which is going to refer to the sun. What you see in the sketch 2 as...

Recently I chanced upon a video from the Royal Institution. The host has tried to replicate a piece of art by Jeff Koons (snapshot from video): At Ri, they have tried to produce the same thing by balancing the ball filled with water, in a tank containing saturated saline water at the bottom...

I am a chilean astrophysicist that works currently in magnetic issues in the Earth, planets, star and cosmos in general. I'm also interested in graphic desing, art-science relationship and dance. Thank you!

Hi, it's been a long time since I've been on these forums, but here is a new 3D blender model that I spent four weeks of daily work to finish. I'm glad it's done, it wasn't easy. This is metal gear RAY, a 70-foot tall robot from the popular video game franchise metal gear solid.

So it all starts with the fact that the game Return of the Obra Dinn (I love it, just in case you wonder) won Best Art Direction during The Game Awards 2018. We discussed it here with a friend of mine and turned out we understood the name of the category differently. In Polish direction and...

I am a retired architect with a big interest in physics and cosmology. I am living in Flanders (Belgium) and stumbled into this forum via a link on Bloomberg News. My background is philosophycal and technical, I have no degree in physics but several grades in other disciplines. I firmly believe...

The turboencabulator joke has been making engineers giggle since 1944. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator I think every year in my career, it resurfaced in one form or another. This video is a modern rendition. The tip-off was the term "crapalloy marvelvanes" which carries over...

If you were able to vote for a certain type of music that you dislike, which would it be? This poll is inspired by the fact that I never got back to sleep after being disturbed by yet another obnoxious person playing hip-hop in his car. I am happy to start the voting.

Be sure the visit the Sundial Bridge at Redding, California.

Here is a NY Times review of the drawings of one of my favorite neurobiologists, Santiago Ramón y Cajal. If I lived nearby New York, I would go and see it. My favorite line from the review: "The drawings will elicit stupefied awe from art enthusiasts, who use their brains without knowing how...

My story is that I finished my theoretical physics PhD about two years ago and immediately got a postdoc position in another university. Towards the end of my PhD and certainly during my postdoc years I've felt more and more that physics is, after all, not for me. Probably because of this...

Hey, I just thought I would share some of my video art. They are meant to be visuals going alongside Techno / House music in the nightclubs of Berlin. However I got a lot of ideas from reading up on physics, like diffraction patterns, fractals, polarization of light / materials, lenses, video...

The goal is to create the most beautiful or interesting equation aesthetically (pleasing to the eye). This is not about it's mathematical significance. Get your inner designer on! Each member is allowed to post one equation The equation can be completely made up Must use LaTeX Be creative...

You've finished with your garden planet and vacation planet, now you want to do something creative.

I came across this paper on the Geometry of M.C. Eschers work, thought I'd share the link. :smile: http://www.math.cornell.edu/~mec/Winter2009/Mihai/section1.html

Dear all, I am an artist and I am making a sculpture in wax that melts using an electric system. I know that wax ignites fire in a temperature of 200°, but, because it is an exhibition with public, I wanted to be completely sure that it does not take fire, in any temperature. Do you know if I...

I like his creativity. I've posted about him before in "Random Thoughts", and here is a page with many examples: http://brightside.me/article/the-artist-who-deceives-your-eyes-8255/']The[/PLAIN] Artist Who Deceives Your Eyes (Bright Side) An example with Einstein, "Chalkboard Universe":

I've got to explain how spin art works to some 5th graders tomorrow. Basic setup: Paper is attached to center of a horizontal disk. Paint droplets are placed at different places on the paper. Disk is spun which causes paint to produce a pattern flowing away from the center of the disk/paper...

Here are several 3D printer art creations by Henry Segerman I came across on the Shapeways site. I found them interesting. I especially liked the ones that projected interesting shadows when illuminated from within (like a lamp).

Hello All, I am an artist who is just beginning to learn how to think mathematically. Have studied the basics "The Golden Standard", Da Vinci, MC Esher. Given my interest, I was introduced to the work of the Dorothea Rockburne and given this work to critique. While I can do the all the art and...

i love to do creative things that's why i love science i love to ask myself questions and try to answer i also love to paint and sculpt, i love to try to capture thos microexprexions that render the soul of a person, here some of my work, what do you think?